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May 26, 1931. G. R. MAGNEY E1' AL 1,806,634

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DISPLAY DEVICE FOR BUILDINGS w' MJ applied in the manner stated, calking material 24 is provided for the flanges 20 whereby a tight joint is made. Vertical U-shaped :trame members 26 are secured in inwardly spaced relation to the walls carrying the design, while bars 28 connecting these frame members with the plate 18 serve to seeurel)7 hold the latter in place. Somewhat inwardly from the frame members 26 partition walls 32 extend between the floors 29 and 31 at the four sides of the building, these partitions being provided with doors 34 as shown in Fig. 4 so that access may be had readily to the display compartment for installing and keeping the display device in proper working condition. In orderto complete the display openings, thimbles 36 are slid' therein whose outer ends stop short of the outside of the openings in the wall, as will be understood from Fig. 3. For the purpose of illuminatingthe display openings, boxes 38 are provided which carry neon lights 40 embodied in tubes having the shape of the display openings. For-instance, the tube 40 of Fig. 3 will have a shape correspondingto the letter F in Fig. 2. The open outside ends of the boxes 38` are provided -with compound anges 42 welded thereto and" which are adapted to rest upon lianges 44 secured within the thimbles 36. Cam-like levers 46 are pivoted to brackets 48 carried by the plates 18 whereby the boxes 38 may be secured in place with the anges 42 in engagement withv the flanges 44. hen the levers 46 are turned into releasing position, the boxes 38 may be removed so that access may be had to the neon tubes 40. The space inside the walls 32 may be utilized for storage and for tiling cabinets for use by the various tenants of the building, it being noted from Fig. 1' that twofloors,.which in this case are the 29th and 30th floors, are provided Jfor this purpose. It will. also be observed from Fig. 1, that the ioor 30 does not extendl 'to the outside walls of the building but is supported from the partition walls .32 by I-beams 50 embedded therein, whereby the display compartments extend for the height otV two floors.

1. A display device for buildings comprising outside walls having openings forming a design, the portion of the wall occupied by said openings being of reducedV thickness on the inside to form asurrou'nding ledge, a plate of sheet metal having openings corresponding` to said first openings, outwardly projecting flangesV on said plate surrounding said' second openings and extending into said first openings, a frame lit'- t-ing into the space formed by said surrounding ledge andengaging the inside of the margin of said plate. and lights disposed inside the building for illuminating said openings.r

2. A display device for buildings comprising outside walls having openings forming a Leccese ingsi.

3. A display device for buildings comprising outside walls having openings forming a design and extending the greater portion of thel height of two oors ofthe building, partition walls spaced inside theportions of said walls having said openings, said'` partition walls extending the fulll height of both of saidfioors and supporting the upper one of said floors, and lights disposed in the compartments formed by saidl partition walls for illuminating said openings.

In testimony whereof we hereunto affix our signatures.

GOTTLIEB R. MAGNEY. WILBUR H. TUSLER. LEON E. ARNAL. 

